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Great software, thanks boot-repair-cd

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1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

Rated at minimum because the 32-bit ISO is not useable on older hardware as a kernel is used requesting a PAE-CPU. I know .... this is a kernel-problem, but nevertheless it's getting really problematic especially because very often Linux is the way to go on older hardware. Really a bad move in kernel-development and as a result Linux gets a status "to be avoided on older hardware" Really a pitty !!!

User Reviews

SUPERB!!
Won't want to miss this CD ever again, which, as it looks, must have been filled up with data to the brim. Even a high-quaiity CD is *extremely* sensitive to any kinds of dust particles. CD will boot anyway, but if you press ESC you will get lots of ugly "sector xxxxxx I/O error" messages. So make sure you use a JEWEL-CASE for this CD! it seems to require every atom of silicon to be readable in order to work reliably for keeps.

Posted 02/22/2015

rolltide101x

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

Boot-Repair-Disk is awesome. I keep a copy of it on me most of the time and it has helped me and friends on several occasions. Every Linux user should keep this around

Posted 01/09/2015

minemax

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

It did the job perfectly!

Posted 01/07/2015

gribouillis

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

Another success for the boot-repair-disk today! Awsome tool!

Posted 12/13/2014

b3rtm3n

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I deleted one of the 4 linux distro's with Gparted and suddenly I was stuck in grub rescue mode after boot.
First time I used a grub repair tool that actually worked, and not just worked ... it worked out of the box too.
Best thing on the market.

Posted 11/28/2014

vicentem

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Excellent utility will repair the grub with one click, congratulations to the creator.
Select the disk 32bit or 64bit, can burn the ISO to pendrive with Rufus or Unetbootin, on the first screen should wait about a minute to load the operating system, and then follow the instructions on the screen, reset and ready.

Posted 11/24/2014

lejurassienfou

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

Very good !!!! I just don't found the MD5 SUM of the boot-repair-disk 64 bit or 32 bit!!

Posted 11/16/2014

marvin22

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

SOLVED! This is awesome program. It indeed fixed my netbook.
It solved this problem:
error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>
And even generate a report file to post online to paste.ubuntu.com, and/or offer send e-mail to boot.repair@gmail.com
I struggled about two weeks of agony before I luckily found boot-repair-disk project. I tried about 20 other programs in order to fix it. Just the last one I encountered (boot-repair-disk) thankfully helped. I would even donate some money if I get a job and earn. Thanks again.

Posted 10/29/2014

djbarney

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

May work on some systems, but on my one it installed an old version of Grub2 and failed to boot on the first harddrive to Linux on the second harddrive. There's no help provided when the distro boots up. Very little or no explanation of settings. If the author can set a up a safer and easier to understand set of steps then I'd love to support this as restoring boot functionality on Linux is abysmal and should not have to require complex shell commands. Hope the author can improve this.

Posted 10/19/2014

mitchell-m

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

Worked flawlessly when nothing else I tried was helping, could not have been easier. It even spits out a report to a website so you can view it later if needed.

Posted 10/18/2014

lin89rtw

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Thank you! It works extremely well. I had moved around some OS's and hard disks on my system, and this easily corrected my MBR for me. Thanks again! I was really going in circles and now it all works perfectly!

Posted 10/12/2014

tppereir

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

I was stuck and boot-repair gave me back the system. Very good. I t could be more verbose to educate peple using it, but of course this is perhaps out of the project.

Super, saved me probably several hours of fiddling and possibly ruining something.
One thing, though: When I issued the "purge" command for grub*-common, it did not uninstall. I was asked if I meant grub:i386 or something, I did not write it down. Only when I purged that, could I progress. Maybe there should be dealt with this case by the tool. Luckily, I had enough background to work around it.
Apart from that bit: Great work, thanks!

Posted 09/02/2014

mediaklan

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This is a pc-life-saver project. Incredibly simple, useful and fast : everything was automatic, and safe. A grub problem solved in a few minutes.

Posted 07/29/2014

packercd

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Saved my bacon. Windows 7 froze. Had to reset and came up saying that their was no boot device. Tried another tool and it didn't work. Put this on a CD. Booted and it fixed it.

Posted 07/22/2014

xmetalfanx1

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

After trying a few different methods and programs (on 32bit and 64bit machines ) ... I found REPEATEDLY that boot-repair is the fastest, easiest way to fix grub problems. I have two dedicated USB sticks (one 32 bit and one 64bit) that I am not touching (formatting/re-using) that I have boot-repair on ... if any of my machines goof up with grub2 ... Boot-Repair fixes it FAST and easy. I'd recommend anyone trying Linux have this utility ...one of those "you may not realize you need this but WHEN you do, you'll be happy you have it" type of tools

Posted 06/22/2014

noktham

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A life saver... thank you for the awesome tool!

Posted 06/21/2014

tmancill

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Great time-saver!
After migrating just the Windows partition from a dual-boot setup on a larger drive to a smaller drive (that step was with Clonezilla), it fixed up the broken grub configuration with a single click.

Posted 06/16/2014

sadi58

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

An indispensable disk management tool...

Posted 05/13/2014

prmcmanus

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Has worked in a few different scenarios. Fixed boot issues for various versions of Windows and Linux. Impressive. Looking at other reviews, it's a shame there's no version with support for older CPUs.
Lets have some new releases please :-) thanks very much

Posted 03/21/2014

guiverc

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

"This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
pae
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for you CPU."
Downloaded 32bit as don't have 64 bit cpu, Turns out I can't use this anyway due kernel.

Posted 03/18/2014

wquatan

1 of 52 of 53 of 54 of 55 of 5

Rated at minimum because the 32-bit ISO is not useable on older hardware as a kernel is used requesting a PAE-CPU. I know .... this is a kernel-problem, but nevertheless it's getting really problematic especially because very often Linux is the way to go on older hardware. Really a bad move in kernel-development and as a result Linux gets a status "to be avoided on older hardware" Really a pitty !!!

Posted 02/26/2014

armujahid

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this project is excellent. live cd version of boot repair disk also contains OS uninstaller and Gparted.So live cd is 3 in one

Posted 01/22/2014

evenfasterlight

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Very pleased to have found this useful suite of tools for partitioning disks and repairing bootloader. I like the clear, uncluttered Lubuntu-style interface. Also includes text editor, file manager and access to internet. Perfect combination.
Used successfully to restore Grub2 bootloader after Win7 install overwrote my Xubuntu. Definitely a keeper, this one...